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Sunday, May 17, 2015

BOOK BLITZ: SKY HIGH by C.J. LAKE + EXCERPT + GIVEAWAYS

Sky High by C.J. Lake (The Attraction #3) Publication date: May 2015Genres: New Adult, RomanceSynopsis**All books in C.J. Lake’s Attraction Series are standalone novels with NO cliffhangers.**First she stole my parking spot. Then we became friends. Then I fell completely, mind-torturingly in love with her. Oh, wait—I think that happened first.Sky High by C.J. Lake – coming in May!

“It’s a long
story,” Sky said with finality, effectively shutting down the topic.

“I see,” Jamie
commented, nodding.

“You couldn’t
possibly,” she challenged.

“Okay, I don’t see
everything,” he admitted casually, “but I get the general picture. You’re the girl your friends are always
trying to set up—but you hate every guy, right?”

“No, not at all,”
Sky insisted. How did he know? “Though my
friends do claim that I’m too picky. But
really, I’m not!”

“Ah, so you’re one
of those too-picky girls.”

“I’m not!” she yelped,
a grin fighting to break through. “The
thing is, I know what I want and I don’t want to settle.”

“So, what do you
want then?” he asked her pointedly.

“I’d just like
someone normal and appealing and fun,” Sky said. “But, you know, smart and interesting and
actually honest. He has to be employed,”
she continued, thinking about it, “and preferably not a felon.”

“So is that it?”
Jamie said, as he chomped on a steak fry.
“Is that the whole list? Or is
there more?”

“Um…yes, I’m sure
there’s more.”

“Of course there
is!”

Giggling, Sky
said, “Hey, I like to be thorough. Did I
mention employed?”

“Yes.”

“Intelligent?”

“Yes, you said
that one, too.”

“Oh! I know.
Insightful. Considerate. Funny without being a clown, and ambitious
without being a showoff. I’d also like
him not to be a total horndog.”

At that, Jamie
froze. “Excuse me?”

Sky’s eyes roamed
around Jamie’s kitchen in a way that was deliberately casual, as she explained,
“I just don’t want someone who is totally obsessed with sex, that’s all.”

He set down his
steak fry, assessing her. “Just to
clarify here…you are looking for a guy,
right?”

“Yes. Why?”

He shrugged. “Just checking. Wasn’t sure there for a second.”

“See, but that’s
the whole problem,” Sky blurted, thinking about the past—even though she
really, truly, deeply did not want to, “guys can fool you.”

“How?” Jamie asked
curiously.

“They…they can
have a dark side,” was all she said. “Of
course they don’t show it until it’s too late.
You know, sometimes I just don’t feel like putting in the effort to meet
a new guy, because how can I know he’s not really a total A-hole?”

“You can’t,” Jamie
admitted. “At first. But I could help you with that.”

Sky’s brows
pinched as she studied him. “Help me
how?”

“All right, Sky,”
Jamie said, sounding confident, and pushed aside his plate. “I’m going to do you a personal favor. You can thank me later. Or now—your call.”

Squinting at him,
Sky said, “What are you talking about?”

“I’ll help you filter
out the losers right away.”

“How?”

“Simple. I’m a guy myself. I know what other guys are about. Just the way you girls all understand each
other—but guys don’t understand girls very well at all. Am I right?”

“Yes,” she
agreed. “But…how would this work?”

“How about
this? If I run into you while you’re out
on one of your blind dates, I’ll let you know my read on the guy. Right then and there. We’ll need some sort of signal, of course.”

“Hmm…I’m tempted
to go along with this,” Sky said thoughtfully.
“But I’m skeptical.”

Jamie spared her a
cold glance over his shoulder. For a
fleeting moment, she thought he might deny his anger or talk around it, but
instead he muttered, “You know why.”

Sucking in a
breath, Sky hesitated. For a long
moment, she watched him picking up weights and stacking them (loudly), feeling
like she had a wad of cotton in her throat.
She wasn’t sure what to say or how to play this; she only knew that she
needed Jamie to be her friend again—and so much more than that—and she wasn’t
going to insult his intelligence by playing dumb.

“Look, I didn’t
even want to go on that date,” she
told him, still talking to his back. “It
was a last-minute favor to Alison—she begged me!” Wordlessly, Jamie stacked two more weights,
then scooped up a dumbbell.

Frustrated, Sky
said, “Look, she begged me as a personal favor to go out with him.”

With his back
still to her, he said, “Yeah, did she beg you to bring the guy back home with
you, too?”

Sky winced at
that. “The date didn’t mean anything,
Jamie.”

God, he was being
difficult. Was he going to make her say
it first? Didn’t he know how scary that
was?

Suddenly he whipped
his head around, as if a thought had just occurred to him. “Wait—is he downstairs right now?
Waiting for you?”

Stunned, Sky just
blinked at him for a second. “Exactly
which part?” she asked, confused.

“This whole thing
with you and me,” he stated bluntly.
“And I’m done with it.”

For a terrifying
second, Sky panicked. How was he “done”
with it? With her? “What does that mean?” she said, trying to
keep her voice from betraying what a hot mess of emotions she was right now.

Jamie started
walking toward her, his eyes burning with anger. “It means: I don’t want to be your friend and
I don’t want to hear about these guys anymore.”

“That’s what I’m
trying to—”

“What do you even
need my input for anyway?” Jamie continued brusquely, and Sky’s breath hitched
in her throat. She’d never seen him this
angry (and was it wrong that it was turning her on?) “You’re a grown woman,” he practically barked
at her, stopping his processional about five feet away from her. “You go be with whoever you want to be
with.”

Nodding, Sky felt
her adrenaline rise. “Fine, I will. In fact, that’s exactly what I’m going to do,” she promised, walking closer to
him. If he was missing her meaning, he
certainly wouldn’t be missing it for long...

C.J. Lake is a storyteller who is passionate about art, surfing, and skiing/snowboarding. Residing near the coast of Massachusetts, C.J. is currently working on a new book. Readers can get in touch via email (writercjlake@gmail.com) or follow C.J. on Twitter @brightbluesurf.

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